Will certainly keep an eye on that one... tried to register but the site just hangs...
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 07 February 2017 10:22 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: X#
Don't remember seeing this mentioned here before but it looks interesting.
You may have heard of Vulcan.NET which is an xBase language in more of the Clipper vein and which supports Visual Objects projects.
Anyway the consensus among developers is that Vulcan.NET is dying or dead, and so some of the developers have struck out on their own to implement an open-source .NET implementation of xBase.
"In April 2015 a group of concerned customers and some members of the GrafX development team have talked about starting a new open source project to give the xBase language for .NET a new future. This initiative is called XSharp. This was partially inspired by the fact that Microsoft has published the source code to its C# and Visual Basic compilers under an open source license (.NET Compiler Platform "Roslyn"[1]). The plan is to create a new development language (compiler, runtime libraties, IDE, tools) where the compiler is partially based on the Roslyn source code."
While it will initially support Vulcan\Clipper\VO type syntax (which is in the VFP ballpark but not identical) they also intend to support VFP syntax next. I would imagine it would be core VFP syntax, dropping all the legacy stuff like @ .. SAY and defunct SYS() functions and so forth. I *think* they intend to support DBF files natively.
Anyway, worth keeping an eye on at least.
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Alan Bourke
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Links:
1. https://roslyn.codeplex.com/
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